Telecom ONAP reaches to the sky with satellite deployment by SES Networks
ONAP is reaching for the skies via a satellite deployment by SES Networks in partnership with Microsoft Azure and Amdocs. The partnership is significant given SES's satellite footprint and Amdoc's…
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Fierce Telecom: Q&A—AT&T’s Mazin Gilbert: Technologies are great, but convergence is the most exciting part
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Light Reading: AT&T’s Gilbert: AI Critical to 5G Infrastructure
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Light Reading: Orange Plans ‘5G Plus Automation’ RFP This Year
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Fierce Telecom: Deutsche Telekom signs up as platinum member of Linux Foundation Networking
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Wireless Week: ONAP Unveils ‘Beijing,’ its Second Software Release
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SDxCentral: ONAP’s Second Code Release, Beijing, Enables the Software to Use Kubernetes
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Fierce Telecom: MEF, TM Forum pitch in on ONAP’s Beijing software release
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Container Journal: Linux Foundation Shifts Network Infrastructure to Kubernetes
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Vanilla Plus: Living in an ONAP world – Delivering a complete VNF integration
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SDxCentral: ADVA Trials Use of ONAP, ONOS to Control Optical Network Assets
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Light Reading: Colt Sees ONAP as Longer-Term Industry Orchestration Standard
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RCR Wireless: Linux Foundation, OCP collaborate on open sourcing hardware and software
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SDxCentral: Vodafone Finds Containers Drastically More Efficient Than VMs
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SDxCentral: Nokia CEO: We Are Signing 5G Deals and China Mobile Is the Latest
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RCR Wireless: AT&T contributes code to Linux open source edge computing project
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The Register: Linux Foundation puts all its networking eggs in one basket
The Linux Foundation has decided the time is right for one administrative structure to cover all of its networking efforts, so has created the “LF Networking Fund ” to oversee…
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TechTarget: Open source networking projects unite under Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation created an umbrella platform, the LF Networking Fund, to promote cross-project collaboration among open source networking projects under its wing. Read more at TechTarget.
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Fierce Telecom: Linux Foundation introduces the LF Networking Fund, harmonizes open source, open standards
The Linux Foundation is taking the first step to bring some commonality across its myriad network efforts by creating the LF Networking Fund (LFN). By creating a combined administrative structure,…
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Enterprise Networking Planet: Linux Foundation Creates New Umbrella LF Networking Fund for Open-Source Networking Projects
On Jan. 23, the Linux Foundation announced a broad restructuring effort for its networking projects that will see a new grouping known as the LF Networking Fund (LFN) emerge as…
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Computer World: Linux Foundation launches networking initiative
The Linux Foundation has launched a new effort to promote collaboration between open source networking projects. The foundation this week unveiled the LF Networking Fund, which Arpit Joshipura described as…
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ZDNet: Linux Foundation seeks to bring rhyme and reason to open-source networking projects
Open source is transforming networking. Ever since OpenFlow appeared in 2011 and showed that we could use software to improve networking, open-source software, and not hardware, has blazed the future of networking.…
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SDxCentral: Linux Foundation Combines 6 Networking Projects Into 1
Six Linux Foundation open source networking projects are combining into one new project known as the LF Networking Fund (LFN). The six initial projects are ONAP, OPNFV, OpenDaylight, FD.io, PDNA, and SNAS. Read more at SDxCentral.
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Light Reading: Linux Foundation Re-Orgs to Simplify Open Source Networking
The Linux Foundation is restructuring its operations to better coordinate the activities of multiple open source networking projects that impact the telecom space, including OPNFV, ONAP and OpenDaylight. Read more…
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FierceTelecom: ONAP Prepares for Beijing Release, Sets Focus on Applications, Operations
With its Amsterdam release behind them, ONAP is focused on preparing for the Beijing platform—the second release in its ongoing series of specifications. Set to be released next summer, Beijing…
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Light Reading: ONAP Shifts Focus to Platform, Functions
The next release of ONAP software will focus on making the overall platform more mature and developing functional requirements that can support multiple end-to-end use cases, says one individual involved…
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RCR Wireless: Bell Becomes First Operator to Launch ONAP in Production
Canadian telecommunications company Bell announced it has become the first company to launch an open source version of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) in production. The announcement was noted…
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SDxCentral: Bell Canada First to Deploy Open Source ONAP in Production
Canadian communications provider Bell is the first organization to deploy an open source version of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) in a production environment. The milestone was noted in…
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Light Reading: Bell Canada Pioneers Production ONAP
Bell Canada's move to be the first company bringing open-source ONAP code into production is the result of a year-long challenge the company set for itself to make its dev-ops…
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FierceTelecom: Bell Canada Says Open Source ONAP Adds Modularity, Flexibility to Its Network
Bell Canada has become one of the first service providers to deploy Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), focusing its initial attention on automating its data center tenant network provisioning process.…
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SearchSDN: New ONAP Architecture Provides Network Automation Platform
Eight months after its inception, the Open Network Automation Platform project released its first code, dubbed Amsterdam. The ONAP architecture is a combination of two former open source projects --…
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Transforming Network Infrastructure: ONAP Goes to Amsterdam
The Open Network Automation Platform Project has come out with its first deliverable since it was created by the merger of ECOMP and the Open Orchestrator Project, or OPEN-O. That…
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Enterprise Networking Planet: Linux Foundation’s Open Network Automation Platform Issues Debut Amsterdam Release
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) is out with is first real release, dubbed Amsterdam. ONAP was first formed by the Linux Foundation in February 2017 as a consolidation of the AT&T-led…
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FierceTelecom: AT&T Says ONAP Amsterdam Release will Solidify Gaps, Enhance Vendor Interoperability
AT&T is keen on taking advantage of ONAP’s new Amsterdam release, saying it will give the telco several new benefits to streamline service creation and delivery for its wireline and…
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TelecomTV: Linux Foundation Publishes Amsterdam, the First Code Release for ONAP
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) has announced the availability of its first platform release, called Amsterdam, which delivers a unified architecture for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation. The open source…
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VanillaPlus: ONAP Will Promote Open Source Ecosystem Building and Accelerate Operational Transformation, Says Huawei
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) community recently announced the availability of its first platform release, ONAP “Amsterdam.” This release delivers a unified architecture for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation and creates a…
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PacketPushers: ONAP Amsterdam: An Open Platform For Network Automation
The Open Network Automation Platform, a Linux Foundation project, has released ONAP Amsterdam, an open-source platform to enable network automation for carriers and service providers. ONAP Amsterdam includes open-source software for orchestration…
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Telecoms: ONAP Sparks up Its First Release – Amsterdam
Such is the mind-boggling complexity of virtualizing and automating networks that open source collaboration is widely considered to be the most effective way of doing so in an interoperable way. ONAP claims…
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SmarterMSP: ONAP Promises to Transform Deliver
ONAP, a framework that’s being spearheaded by The Linux Foundation and promises to transform how network and cloud services are delivered, was made generally available yesterday. The Amsterdam release of the…
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RCR Wireless News: Network Automation Standards are Emerging with ONAP Amsterdam Release
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) announced the release of ONAP Amsterdam, a unified architecture for closed-loop, end-to-end network automation. The purpose of the platform is to decrease costs and…
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Wireless Week: ONAP Unveils First Release Amsterdam
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project has unveiled its first platform release, ONAP Amsterdam, to help service providers with ongoing efforts to virtualize their networks. Amsterdam aims to deliver…
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CED Magazine: ONAP Advances Automated Virtualization Efforts with Amsterdam Release
As service providers continue efforts to virtualize their networks, the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project has unveiled its first platform release, ONAP Amsterdam, which aims to deliver a unified…
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Mobile Europe: ONAP Hails Completion of Its First Project, Amsterdam
Dubbed Amsterdam, the platform is the first completed work since the separate open source virtualisation projects OpenECOMP and Open-O combined earlier this year. ONAP said Amsterdam merged the work of…
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Mobile World Live: Amsterdam gets ONAP Ball Rolling
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) project unveiled its first release, a unified architecture for closed-loop network automation designed to enable tier-one operators to rapidly deploy new services. In an…
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Telco Transformation: ONAP Unchained With Amsterdam Software Release
There are two things The Linux Foundation's Arpit Joshipura very much wants you to know about ONAP: It's a platform, not a product, and there are real-world deployments of it…
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DatacenterDynamics: Open Network Automation Platform Sees First Release
The recently established Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project has marked the first official release of its open source code, written in collaboration with major network operators. The release codenamed…
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SDxCentral: ONAP Rolls Out Amsterdam Release
Less than nine months after AT&T and the Linux Foundation merged their open source projects to become the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), the group today rolled out its first code release, Amsterdam. The highly anticipated…
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Telecompaper: ONAP Delivers Amsterdam Release, Sets Standard for Network Service Automation
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project announced the availability of its first platform release, ONAP "Amsterdam," which delivers a unified architecture for closed-loop network automation. The Amsterdam release provides a…
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Light Reading: Ambitious Amsterdam Makes ONAP’s Case
ONAP today rolled out its much-anticipated first software release, dubbed Amsterdam, promising a unified architecture for network automation, modules of which can -- and are -- being used immediately by…
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FierceTelecom: ONAP Amsterdam Release Furthers Automated Virtualization Trend
ONAP has taken another step forward as a key enabler for service providers virtualizing their networks with its first platform release, ONAP Amsterdam, focusing on a unified architecture for closed-loop network…
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RCR Wireless: International Connectivity Key to Amdocs Intercarrier Service Orchestration Solution
Amdocs, a software and services provider to communications and media companies, rolled out a new intercarrier service orchestration solution, which enables Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to automate traffic scaling across…
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Light Reading: Monetizing ONAP, the Amdocs Way
As the debate about how ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform) might be interpreted and used by network operators, Amdocs is providing an early example of ONAP in action and showing…
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SDxCentral: AT&T Makes its SD-WAN ‘Dynamic’
ORLANDO, Florida – At this week’s MEF17 event in Orlando, Fla., Josh Goodell, vice president for intelligent edge at AT&T, said the carrier was set to launch a dynamic version of its…
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FierceTelecom: Linux Foundation’s Joshipura says ONAP is now the de facto open networking platform
ORLANDO--Since ECOMP and Open O merged earlier this year to create Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP), the Linux Foundation is seeing membership and interest continue to accelerate to automate more…
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SDxCentral: AT&T, Orange, and Partners Shrink the World Using MEF LSO, ONAP
ORLANDO, Fla. — AT&T, Orange, and a handful of technology partners are attempting to shrink the world by using inter-provider application programming interfaces (APIs) to provision Ethernet services. The companies demonstrated a proof…
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SDxCentral: AT&T’s Fuetsch Hints at Upcoming White Box and ONAP Plans
DALLAS – AT&T plans to provide more details in the coming weeks on its white box and ONAP plans that are part of its broader network virtualization initiative. Speaking at the recent…
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SDxCentral: AT&T Wields Disproportionate Influence in ONAP, But Everyone’s OK With It
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) open source group is presumably putting the finishing touches on its first code release — Amsterdam. The group has said it will release Amsterdam before the end…
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Light Reading: ONAP Strikes Back, Saying Critics Are Misinformed
It's been a rough week for ONAP, public relations-wise. First my colleague Iain Morris reported on something of a groundswell of negativity about the open source MANO project, much of…
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Huffington Post: Politics Is Disconnected From Coming Changes to Our Connected World
Washington politics has been stuck in a cul-de-sac of debates over health care, immigration and taxes for years. Meanwhile the tools and networks that power our economy and connect our…
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SDxCentral: AT&T Tackles Artificial Intelligence with open Source Acumos Project
DALLAS – AT&T and Tech Mahindra are developing an open source artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning platform that will be hosted within the Linux Foundation. The Acumos Project is expected to be launched early…
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Vanilla Plus: ZTEsoft Joins ONAP for Collaborative Transformation of the Service Delivery Lifecycle and SDN/NFV
ZTEsoft has joined the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) project. More than 50 global service providers and technology leaders are co-operating to expand the global community and further the ONAP vision for collaborative…
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Light Reading: What Does Automation Mean to You?
With its promise of greater efficiencies and agility, automation is driving many network operator strategies these days -- that much is evident from quantifiable industry research and from the very…
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IT Business Edge: MEF, ONAP Collaborate to Make Virtualization Work Across Discrete Networks
Carriers and service providers are working very hard to implement complex virtualized schemes across their networks. That’s a big part of the game, but not the entire challenge. Another important…
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Telco Transformation: MEF & ONAP Strike Up Collaboration Effort
The telco industry has long clamored for more cooperation between open source communities and standard development organizations, so today's announcement that MEF and ONAP had agreed to collaborate on end-to-end…
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Wireless Week: ONAP Collaborates with MEF on Open Source Efforts, Reaches ‘Tipping Point’ in Subscribers Participating
Open source community leader ONAP is teaming up with standards body MEF to further harmonize open source efforts ahead of 5G. Arpit Joshipura, GM of Networking and Orchestration at the…
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TeleCompetitor: AT&T ECOMP Helps Lay Foundations for MEF-Linux Foundation Agreement Targeting Service Orchestration
AT&T’s open source ECOMP initiative, which aims to bring a higher level of standardization to the automation of communications service creation and turn-up, is having a broad industry impact, as…
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FierceTelecom: MEF, ONAP Develop Pact for Open Network-Based Orchestrated Services
MEF and the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), a Linux Foundation project, have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish service orchestration for service providers interconnecting diverse networks and technologies.…
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TechTarget: MEF Releases Sonata and Presto APIs, Partners with ONAP
MEF published the Sonata and Presto APIs and said it would work together with the Open Network Automation Platform to determine how automation and orchestration can be managed in software-based…
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SDxCentral: ONAP and MEF Join Each Others’ Groups Collaborate on LSO
MEF and the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) are officially working together, the organizations announced today at the SDN and NFV World Congress. MEF has joined ONAP as an associate member.…
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SDxCentral: Amdocs Brings an NFV Software Package Based on ONAP
Amdocs is wasting no time introducing service creation capabilities for virtual network functions (VNFs) based on the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP). Today, Amdocs announced its new NFV Powered by ONAP…
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Light Reading: Vodafone Pushes ONAP Over Key Threshold
ONAP's addition of Vodafone to its platinum member roster not only adds the voice of one of the largest global carriers and earliest implementers of NFV-SDN to the open source…
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Light Reading: Amdocs Claims ONAP First-Mover Status
In a move that should surprise no one, Amdocs today announced an NFV software and services portfolio based on ONAP. The software giant is hoping to get a first-mover advantage,…
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Fierce Wireless: Vodafone Group joins ONAP, ready to drive initiative
As promised, carrier membership in the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project is growing, with Vodafone Group being the latest operator to join as a Platinum member. The announcement was…
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Fierce Telecom: Vodafone Joins AT&T, Bell in ONAP Project, Validates Open Standards Commitment
Vodafone has joined the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project as a Platinum member, giving credence to the growing software-based effort by providing its perspective as a major global service…
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Fierce Wireless: AT&T confident in ONAP’s ability to attract more operators
AT&T is so confident in Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), an operating system for automating virtual network functions, that it believes more players will jump on board to support it…
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Webinar: ONAP Poised to Transform Industry
Earlier this year, the Linux Foundation announced that it was merging open source ECOMP with OPEN-O to create a powerful automation platform for telcos' NFV and SDN networks. During this…
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Light Reading: AT&T Confidence Builds on ONAP Adoption
AT&T's announcement of its $200 million commitment to a venture capital fund backing tech startups grabbed some headlines last week, but on closer inspection, this is practically business as usual…
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PE Hub: AT&T commits up to $200 mln for venture fund
AT&T and venture firm Coral Group have teamed up to launch a venture fund that will invest in startups that run on the Open Network Automation Platform. AT&T has committed to providing up…
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Light Reading: Windstream Formally Embraces Open Source
Windstream is dipping its toe into the open source waters, joining the Open Network Automation Project (ONAP), its first active engagement in open source. (See Windstream Joins ONAP.) The announcement could…
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Fierce Telecom: Windstream’s entry into ONAP reflects telco’s ongoing SDN migration
Windstream has joined the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project, signaling the telco’s desire to set the stage to implement software-defined networking and network functions virtualization across its network architecture.…
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Light Reading: Big Names Board the ONAP Express
More big networking industry names, including Juniper, PCCW and Red Hat, have stuck their flags in the ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform) ground and come out in support of the…
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Fierce Telecom: AT&T’s Donovan defends operator’s embrace of open source software
AT&T’s John Donovan said that the operator’s move toward open source software will allow it to more quickly develop new products and react to changing market conditions. “It really doesn’t…
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Fierce Telecom: AT&T says more vendors are embracing the software-centric network approach
As AT&T continues to ramp up its network virtualization efforts, the service provider is seeing its vendor partners embracing the software-centric model. Having spent decades developing hardware solutions for their…
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Mobile Europe:Telcos unite to underpin China Mobile NFV tests
The Open NFV Testlab will use Enea's commercial NFV Core platform and Cavium's ARM-based ThunderX workload data centre server processors. The operator's Testlab will host the platform as it looks…
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Telco Transformation: Huawei’s Chiosi Shares Views on ONAP, MANO & More
Margaret Chiosi, vice president of Open Ecosystems in the US with Huawei, has been at the center of the telecom transformation since day one -- as one of the authors…
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Converge! Network Digest: Introducing ONAP – the Open Network Automation Platform
Presenters in this video include: Chris Rice, Senior VP of AT&T Labs; Arpit Joshipura, General Manager for Network & Orchestration at The Linux Foundation; Madam Yang, Deputy General Manager of…
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Telco Transformation: AT&T’s Chris Rice on ONAP’s Key Challenge
In his many presentations on ECOMP, leading up to its introduction into open source and its merger with OPEN-O into the ONAP, AT&T's Chris Rice often cited the need for…
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Converge! Network Digest: Coriant Backs ONAP Project
Coriant announced its support for the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project to help accelerate industry adoption of standards-based Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) capabilities that…
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Enterprise Networking Planet: Cisco Facing a Maturing Open Network Environment
Open networking has been on a roll lately as large operators warm up to the idea of reducing hardware to white box infrastructure while architecting all of the tricky stuff…
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Converge! Network Digest: The Open Network Automation Platform looks like a turning point for telecom architecture
The biggest news out of the recentOpen Networking Summit in Silicon Valley is that the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project, which unites AT&T's open source ECOMP and the Open…
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Light Reading: China’s Telcos Eye Life after 4G
At this rate, it will not be long before China Mobile's biggest problem is the shortage of customers not using 4G services. Yet again, the Chinese mobile giant has reported…
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Capacity Media: Reliance Jio joins open networking project as focus moves to cloud
Indian operator Reliance Jio has become a member of the Linux Foundation’s open source project, joining operators such as AT&T, Bell Canada and Orange that are working towards cloud operation.…
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Global Telecoms Business: Jio joins Onap open networking project
Indian operator Reliance Jio has become a member of the Linux Foundation’s open source project, joining operators such as AT&T, Bell Canada and Orange that are working towards cloud operation.…
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Light Reading: Indigo: A new shade of AT&T
Perhaps more so than other major events, this one has become something of a measuring stick of the industry's progress on a couple of key things -- adoption of virtualization…
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Telco Transformation: China Mobile Ramps Up With ONAP
ONAP took a final curtain call at the Open Networking Summit Thursday morning when AT&T's Chris Rice and Yang Zhiqiang, the deputy general manager of the China Mobile Research Institute,…
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Fierce Telecom: AT&T’s Rice: ONAP will help the industry take advantage of ECOMP and Open-O
AT&T says this week’s release of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) code into open source is a call to action for SDN developers to take an active role in the…
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eWeek: Open Networking Takes Next Steps Up the Stack
As networking makes its inexorable move toward cloud native models and development, participants here at this week's Open Networking Summit made several key announcements toward that end.
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SDX Central: How ONAP Will Merge Millions of Lines of Code from ECOMP and Open-O
How long does it take to merge eight million lines of code from AT&T’s ECOMP framework with the code from the Open-O project, which is also very large? Now that…
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Light Reading: Ciena Jumps on ONAP Bandwagon
Ciena is the next company to join ONAP, bringing its Blue Planet experience to that open source project, the company will announce today. That makes at least three new members…
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SDX Central: AT&T Runs Open Source White Box Switch in its Live Network
At the Open Networking Summit (ONS) this week, AT&T executives talked about a live field trial the company conducted in late March with multiple suppliers where it tested an open…
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Light Reading: ONAP Makes Splashy ONS Debut
This event has proven to be a major coming out party for ONAP, the newly converged open source MANO organization, with a steady drip of news and podium tributes, capped…
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RCR Wireless: ONAP Project moves on code release; names new members, directors
SVP of AT&T Labs Chris Rice named chair of ONAP Project just weeks after its formation out of The Linux Foundation; releases code in bid for collaboration. Mere weeks after…
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Enterprise Networking Planet : ONAP Releases First Project Code from Open-Source Networking Effort
Just over a month ago, the Linux Foundation announced the merger of the ECMOP and Open-O projects to form the new Open Network Automation Project (ONAP). At the ONS 2017…
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